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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post Failure is My Friend in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
When I think about this course, what I’ve gained and the ways in which I have contributed towards the community we’ve built in the shaggy room located in Welles 216, I become overwhelmed by how many kind, eag […]
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post Project: Encoding Thoreau in the group Digital Humanities: 4 years, 11 months ago
By: Emilio Garcia, Cindy Castillo, Nicole Logrieco, Mallory DelSignore, and Anonymous
Our Project, Encoding Thoreau aimed at inquiring deeper into TEI, the markup language most commonly used for scholarly digital […]
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Cindy Castillo wrote a new blog post Yikes! Beware of Trolls in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
Technology, specifically the internet and social media, is crucial in the development of Long Division by Kiese Laymon.
We see how Laymon uses the differences in technological advances and culture to […]
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post Thank you, Ariel Alejandro. in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
As I was scrolling through my classmates blog posts, I stumbled upon one I found intriguing titled: For Gus (thank you for cleaning our suite sophomore year). Upon reading it, I felt inspired to write my very own […]
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post W.E.B Du Bois, Double Consciousness, Double Standards in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
This semester, one of our required course texts was W.E.B Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk. In the text, we were introduced to the term “double consciousness,” although perhaps some of us were already fa […]
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post Getting Our GroOove On in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
I must admit, Dr. Mark Broomfield’s class was probably my favorite although I will admit that my love for dance might make this declaration a bit biased. I grew up listening to Spanish music so it comes to n […]
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post What This Class has Taught Me as An Artist and Writer in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
If you’ve read any of my blog posts by now, you might have already noticed my deep admiration for my Mexican heritage, my family, and my love for art. Growing up, I was surrounded by my rich, diverse culture, a […]
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post A New Kind of Stank, My Own Kinda Stank ft. a Lil Bit of Magic in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
“I am a Southern black worker, committed to building stank-ass art rooted in honesty, will, and imagination.”- Kiese Laymon
I grew up in a small Brooklyn apartment, right in what felt like the center o […]
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post The Hardest Part is to Start in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
As I meditated on what I’ve gained in this course thus far and what I could possibly write about in my blog posts, many thoughts emerged. I could begin by delving in what I consider the most significant chan […]
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post Sustainability in the Age of Information in the group Digital Humanities: 5 years ago
As I pondered on what I’ve gained in this course, many thoughts emersed. I could begin by delving in what I consider the most significant change I’ve noticed which is the way I now interact with information and […]
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post DAMN, That’s Important. in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
“Hail Mary, Jesus and Joseph/ The great American flag is wrapped and dragged with explosives/ Compulsive disorder, sons and daughters/ Barricaded blocks and borders/ Look what you taught us.”- Kendrick Lamar, […]
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post What Frida Kahlo and Steve Prince have in Common in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
Frida Kahlo has always been a major source of inspiration for me growing up. I admired her ability to articulate and express both her femininity and masculinity, as well as her approach in cons […]
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Cindy Castillo changed their profile picture 5 years, 2 months ago
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post Technology, Humans, and Art in the group Digital Humanities: 5 years, 2 months ago
First and foremost, I was a bit hesitant coming into this course, I had never really considered myself technologically savvy so naturally, I felt quite nervous having to work with programs I had never even heard […]
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Cindy Castillo joined the group Digital Humanities 5 years, 2 months ago
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post What We Talk About When We Art in the group American Studies: 5 years, 2 months ago
“My job is to notice…and to notice that you can notice.”–Dionne Brand
To be quite frank, I felt an immediate sense of excitement when I learned that Geneseo would be offering INTD288, a course explo […]
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post What the F*uck is Going on? in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
It was a typical Wednesday morning when my morning ritual began: get dressed; grab my morning cup of coffee and begin my commute to campus. It’s not unusual to see me rambling out the door, my hair dripping wet […]
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Cindy Castillo posted a new page, on the site The Tower by W.B. Yeats 5 years, 4 months ago
Wisdom, W.B Yeats
The true faith discovered was
When painted panel, statuary.
Glass−mosaic, window−glass,
Straightened all that went awry
When some peasant gospeller
Imagined Him upon the flo […]
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Cindy Castillo edited the blog post My Reaction to Molly Mattison’s Group Blog Post LIVE IN ART??? in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
I was scrolling down our courses blog post feed in hopes of finding something that would catch my eye. Well, hold and behold, I have found it. Molly Mattison and her group wrote a piece titled “LIVE IN ART??” and […]
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Cindy Castillo wrote a new blog post In Response to Jose Romero’s The World of Children: Immigrant & Orogene Bound in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
I must say, I quite enjoyed Jose Romero’s The World of Children: Immigrant & Oregene Bound blog post. It was compelling, beautifully rendered and intimate. The short anecdotes Romero shares about his parents i […]
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